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P077517750/l750ii/ M 55.

J? L75 ZZZ/H7778. 55127252 Jam X52252 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD DE CHARMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-FASTENER.

- Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,854, dated December 21', 1858.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD DE CHARMS, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have devised a useful new Article of Manufacture, to wit, an Eyeleted Carpet or Floor-Cover Binding; and I do hereby declare that the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description of my device, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

Figure l, is a perspective view of carpet put down with screws instead of tacks. Fig. 2, is a view of the eyeleted binding.

Bare inspection shows how this binding is to be applied in putting down a carpet; and, therefore, no detailed description of its use and application is necessary here.

The peculiar advantages of this method 1ie First. In the facility with which a carpet may be put down and taken up..

Second. In the saving of wear and tear to the carpet, and the unsightly disfiguration of the floor with headless and buried tacks.

Third. The same binding may serve for any number of successive carpets to the same room.

Fourth. The binding may be a determining measuring line of the room or apartment which is to be carpeted; as the eyelet holes are placed invariably three inches apart; so that, when a room or apartment is to be carpeted, the binding can be first applied to the sides, margins and recesses, and the carpet be afterward purchased and cut to correspond.

Fifth. The lengths and breadths of the carpet can be stretched, in applying the binding; so as greatly to facilitate the putting of the carpet down with any of the most approved carpet stretchers, after two of the sides have had the carpet attached to them by their appropriate screws. It

is purposed to devise a mode of stretching manent eyelet holes of the binding; and yet the greater economy in the long run, however much more the expense of the original outlay may bethe same tacks never answering for putting.down ex en the same carpet twice, and the same screws answering for any number of additional carpets. Brass screws are used, both because they are more ornamental, and because they are not liable to rust.

Seventh. They dispense with stair rods and their fastenings; for the margins of entry and stair carpets can be screwed down as well as any other; and with the decided advantage, that the stair carpet will not slip when screwed, as it frequently does under the rods.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within described new article of manufacture, to wit; an eyeleted carpet or floor cover binding, for the purposes set forth.

April 2, 1858.

R. DE CHAR-MS. Vitnesses Var. B. AITKENS, M. I-IAzLET. 

